Visual Arts

Author uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the processes of cultural hybridization and resistance and their presence in film, music, and art. Discusses how these factors can combine to preserve and revitalize traditional knowledges and cultures in the contemporary globalized world.

Overview of the depictions of Aboriginal men and women from historical origins to contemporary media portrayals.

Telegram from C.W. Watt of the PQ Inuit Association noting refusal of residents to vote in October 11th election until given proper representation in the House of Commons. Also pg. 26 of a brochure by the French government describing an exhibition in that country of Canadian Inuit art.

Discusses the work of artists who express Aboriginal identity in unconventional ways.

Discusses the similarities between geometric patterns and symbols in Native American Indian artwork.

Curatorial notes of an exhibition mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, February 1 to September 6, 1998. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 43.

Overview of the stained glass window depicting the journey of Aboriginal people through harrowing times, and into a new era of hope.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg, 2018.

Streetwize conducted a series of visual art workshops with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to make posters on HIV/AIDS that would be meaningful to Aboriginal youth.

Includes links to information on grant writing for language advocates and artists, sample applications, and a language needs assessment guide.

"From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 ..."

Reports on a large concentration of inuksuit at Cape Dorset and also includes an excerpt from, An Intimate Wilderness: Arctic Voices In A Land Of Vast Horizons.

Saskatchewan First Nation artists, James Ratt, Michael Lonechild, John R. Hallkett, Calvin Sand, Myles Charles, Robert Bellegarde, and Lloyd Pinay, displayed 91 objects of art at a private showing.

Reviews of: Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art, Past to Present: Important Works for the First Peoples of the Northwest Coast, and Two Perspectives: Visions of Haida Gwaii.

Describes the unique project which makes stop motion animations featuring Haida words, phrases and stories, using carved puppets and sets made from readily available materials. The project also incorporates a 5-step community animation process: script, pre-production, production, post production and distribution.

Image of woman painting cards. Several hang to dry on a line in front of her.

Brief discussion of an exhibition of the artist's genealogy-inspired work entitled Pine held at the Gallery Connexion in Fredericton.

Provides a brief overview of the Haudenosaunee, the Onondaga Nation and the schools involved in the flag raising.

Edgar Heap of Birds shares his art and opinions. Concludes with videos of places he has been. Duration: 1:06:50.

Poster of sketches of key figures and a partial map relating to the Northwest Resistance.

Interview with an Inuk artist, writer and curator from Labrador. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 56.

Looks at the guiding influences of Māori specialists in the production of hei tiki, an Indigenous iconographic form.

Exhibit at the RCMP Museum in Regina displays art work by Henry Beaudry of the Mosquito First Nation.

Focuses on two performance pieces: James Luna's The Chapel of the Sacred Colours and Rebecca Belmore's The Indian Factory.

Examines the relationship between art, identity and culture and the discourses surrounding contemporary Indigenous art.

Discusses the changing depictions of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the stories and images and compares Indigenous to non-Indigenous representations.

Brief discussion of Terrance Houle and Trevor Freeman's performance piece Portage which references Canada's treatment of Métis and First Nations peoples. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses associations which were established to encourage production and marketing of Inuit artworks

Book review of: History's Shadow by Steven Conn.

Essay focuses on works that deal with conflict and war.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1990.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1998.

Film about conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, the history behind them and photographer Aaron Huey's efforts to bring to the attention of the American public. Premiered at ShortsFest, Seattle International Film Festival 2012. Duration: 14 min.

Booklet uses different forms of creative expressions to draw attention to the lived realities of Indigenous women.

Indigenous women share their lived experiences with regards to their relationships with the land, birth mothers, communities and themselves through poetry and art.

Produced to accompany exhibition which incorporated aspects of two other projects: Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Indian Residential School and Project of Heart: Illuminating the Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in BC. One of the main features of the exhibition was a commemorative canoe decorated with tiles created by students from participating schools.

Presents digitized images and lesson plans to enhance teaching and learning about First Nations art.

Describes alterations the artist made to Lothar Baumgarten's Monument for the Native People of Ontario in the Walker Court of the Gallery.

Art History, Visual Art and Theory Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2001.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2008.

Discusses Jim Northrup's Rez Road Follies, Thomas King's The Truth About Stories, and Paul Chaat Smith's Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong in terms of the techniques used to critique government actions in their respective countries.

Uses the work of the self-proclaimed Osage artist to discuss the way that American culture's definition of "Indianness" allowed her to achieve success but created barriers for other Indigenous female artists.

Examines how a group of contemporary American Indian artists explore a redefinition of themselves, individually and collectively.

Animated version of a poem written in 1927. No dialogue. Acommpanying material: I am But a Little Woman: Lesson Plan. Duration: 4:39.

Information related to the college that offers BA and BFA degrees in creative writing, studio arts, new media arts, museum studies and Indigenous liberal studies.